card sorting

Happiness is spending the day doing card sorting. Why does this make me happy? Well, it is me being able to apply my education as an anthropologist to my job as an information architect. So, I get to do anthropology and web development all rolled into one. It could only be better if I were being paid to do ethnographic studies within Warcraft. Here is a great article on what exactly card sorting is, and here is an interesting site on sorting data in general as it relates to other fields (including anthropology).

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#Research this week reinforced this. Everyone has a hack. Embrace the hacks and figure out how to incorporate them into your product. #ux5 days ago